Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene of the biggest case he's ever been part of. The President's son & daughter have been abducted from their school
- an impossible crime but somehow the kidnapper has done it. Alex does everything he can but is shunted to the fringes of the investigation. Someone powerful doesn't want Cross too close. A deadly contagion in the DC water supply threatens to cripple the capital & Alex sees the looming shape of the most devastating attack the United States has ever experienced. He is already working flat-out on the abduction & this massive assault pushes Cross completely over the edge. With each hour that passes the chance of finding the children alive diminishes. In an emotional private meeting the First Lady asks Alex to please save her kids. But even the highest security clearance doesn't get him any closer to the kidnapper
- & Alex makes a desperate decision that goes against everything he believes in. A full-throttle thriller with unstoppable action unrestrained emotion & relentless suspense Kill Alex Cross" is the most gripping Alex Cross novel James Patterson has ever written."

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Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene of the biggest case he's ever been part of. The President's son & daughter have been abducted from their school
- an impossible crime but somehow the kidnapper has done it. Alex does everything he can but is shunted to the fringes of the investigation. Someone powerful doesn't want Cross too close. A deadly contagion in the DC water supply threatens to cripple the capital & Alex sees the looming shape of the most devastating attack the United States has ever experienced. He is already working flat-out on the abduction & this massive assault pushes Cross completely over the edge. With each hour that passes the chance of finding the children alive diminishes. In an emotional private meeting the First Lady asks Alex to please save her kids. But even the highest security clearance doesn't get him any closer to the kidnapper
- & Alex makes a desperate decision that goes against everything he believes in.

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Everyone says fourteen-year-old Billie is nothing but trouble. A fighter. A danger to her family & friends. But her care worker sees someone different. Her classmate Rob is big strong; he can take care of himself & his brother. But his violent stepdad sees someone to humiliate. & Chris is struggling at school; he just doesnt want to be there. But his dad sees a useless no-hoper. Billie Rob & Chris each have a story to tell. But there are two sides to every story & the question is.. .who do you believe? ...

The chief of Israeli Intelligence recalls two former agents in order to eliminate a top Palestinian terrorist. One agent is now an art restorer the other a fashion model. Ten years before on a mission to destroy the Arab Black September group they were briefly lovers. Now their pasts & their enemies come back to haunt them as the terrorist murders ambassadors in Paris & Holl&. Will the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks be his next target? & what motivates the terrorist? Is it politics or is it possibly personal? Set mainly in London but with forays into Paris Amsterdam the Middle East & north America this thriller has all Daniel Silva's hallmarks of strong characters unusual backgrounds & a page-turning narrative. ...

An atmospheric new Fry & Cooper thriller for fans of Peter Robinson & Reginald Hill. On a rain-swept Derbyshire moor hounds from the local foxhunt find the body of a well-dressed man whose head has been crushed. Yet an anonymous caller reports the same body lying half a mile away. Called in to investigate the discovery detectives DS Diane Fry & DC Ben Cooper become entangled in the violent world of hunting & hunt saboteurs horse theft & a little-known sector of the meat trade. As Fry follows a complex trail of her own to unravel the shady business interests of the murder victim Cooper realizes that the answer to the case might lie deep in the past. History is everywhere around him in the Peak District landscape
- particularly in the plague village of Eyam where an outbreak of Black Death has been turned into a modern-day tourist attraction. But even as the final solution is revealed both Fry & Cooper find themselves having to face up to the disturbing reality of the much more recent past.
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Although far from a typical raid the 20 July Plot
- Operation Valkyrie
- was still a daring & audacious attack undertaken by

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Matthew Bannon a poor art student living in New York City finds a leather bag filled with diamonds during a chaotic attack at Grand Central Station. Plans for a worry-free life with his gorgeous girlfriend Katherine fill his thoughts
- until he realises that he is being hunted & that whoever is after him wont stop until they have reclaimed the diamonds & exacted maximum revenge. Trailing him is the Ghost the worlds greatest assassin who has just pulled off his most high-profile hit: killing Walter Zelvas a top member of the international Diamond Syndicate. Theres only one small problem: the diamonds he was supposed to retrieve from Zelvas are missing. Now the Ghost is on Bannons trail
- but so is a rival assassin who would like nothing more than to make the Ghost disappear for ever.

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Grand Central Station New York City 11 pm. Gunshots & explosions fill the air & suddenly you
- & everyone else
- are running

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Nathan Stiedowe is seeking perfection
- & he has been learning from the best. Recreating some of the most sickening murders in
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When sun flares hit the Earth intense heat toxic radiation & flooding followed wiping out much of the human race. Those who survived live in basic communities in the mountains hunting for food. For Mark & his friends surviving is difficult & then an enemy arrives infecting people with a highly contagious virus. Thousands die & the virus is spreading. Worse it's mutating & people are going crazy. It's up to Mark & his friends to find the enemy
- & a cure
- before the Flare infects them all.

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